A DRIVE to increase pressure on a government accused of genocide during World War I will be launched on Thursday by Dafydd Iwan, president of Plaid Cymru.

A DRIVE to increase pressure on a government accused of genocide during World War I will be launched on Thursday by Dafydd Iwan, president of Plaid Cymru.

He will call on his own council, Gwynedd Council, to "recognise the reality of the Armenian genocide that took place under the Turkish government in 1915".

His motion also calls on the UK and Welsh governments to oppose Turkey's attempts to join the European Union until Turkey formally acknowledges the genocide which, it is said, affected 1.5 million Armenians who had lived in Turkey who were killed or forced to flee during the last years of the Ottoman Empire.

Some historians claim that details of the genocide, taken home by German soldiers, formed a template for Adolf Hitler's extermination of Jews.

PETER STRACHAN, the managing director of Arriva Trains Wales, has pledged his commitment to the future of the Heart of Wales Line.

The line, which runs for 120 miles from Llanelli and Swansea to Shrewsbury via Llandrindod Wells, will be run for the next 15 years by the company under a recently awarded franchise.

Mr Strachan told a crowded meeting of the Heart of Wales Line Forum that he wanted more local involvement, and the Forum endorsed a proposal to set up a "task and finish" working party to develop rail based tourism products.

A FIRE destroyed two caravans at a North Wales holiday park yesterday.

North Wales Fire Service attended a fire at the Sunnyvale Park in Kinmel, near Rhyl. The fire began at 8.50pm.

Fire teams used breathing apparatus and thermal imaging cameras when tackling the blaze.

No one was hurt.

A FLAT in South Wales was ravaged by fire yesterday, fire officials said.

The blaze in a flat in Dockview Road, Barry, began at 9.15pm and lasted for an hour.

A spokesperson for South Wales Fire Service said that officers were investigating the cause of the blaze.